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Moving from Nevada to Nebraska as a certified nursing assistant

What a certified nursing assistant licensed in Nevada has to do to work in Nebraska, what the move does to your pay, and who in Nebraska is hiring from out of state.

Transfers by reciprocity. Your Nevada certificate stays on the Nevada State Board of Nursing, Certified Nursing Assistant program; to work in Nebraska you apply to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Nurse Aide Registry for reciprocity. It accepts an active certificate in good standing from another state; there is no retest if your record is clean. Most registries list you within two to six weeks.

What the move does to your paycheck

On a $60,000 salary Nebraska takes roughly $2,184 a year more than Nevada does, because you are leaving a state with no income tax on wages.

SalaryNevada state taxNebraska state taxDifference a year
$40,000$0$1,456-$1,456
$60,000$0$2,184-$2,184
$90,000$0$3,276-$3,276

Rough figures for a single filer: exact in the flat-rate and no-tax states, approximated at 70% of the top bracket in the progressive ones. Property and sales tax are not in it.

RN and LPN: Nevada to Nebraska

Endorsement, six to twelve weeks. Nevada is not in the compact, so your Nevada licence is single-state. Apply to the Nebraska board for licensure by endorsement (Nursys verification, fingerprints, the board's fee); six to twelve weeks is normal, so start before you give notice. Because Nebraska is a compact state, ask for the new licence to be issued as a multistate licence: from then on it works in every compact state.

Electrician: Nevada to Nebraska

Exam likely. Nebraska licenses at state level through the Nebraska State Electrical Division and reciprocates with other state boards, but Nevada licenses locally through the Nevada State Contractors Board, which is not a party to those agreements. Expect to document your hours and sit the Nebraska journeyman exam.

CDL: Nevada to Nebraska

Transfers at the DMV. A commercial driver's licence transfers like any licence: within 30 days of becoming a Nebraska resident you surrender the Nevada CDL at a Nebraska driver licence office, pass the vision test, pay the fee, and your endorsements carry over. A hazmat endorsement needs a fresh TSA threat assessment in Nebraska. Your driving record follows you through the federal CDLIS system.

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Openings filed in Nebraska

53 open positions filed with the Department of Labor by Nebraska employers who could not fill them locally.

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RN or LPN: Nevada to Nebraska · Electrician: Nevada to Nebraska · Truck driver: Nevada to Nebraska · All licences: Nevada to Nebraska

From Nevada to the states next to Nebraska

South Dakota (no state income tax) · Iowa (flat 3.8% state income tax) · Missouri (progressive, top rate 4.7%) · Kansas (progressive, top rate 5.58%) · Colorado (flat 4.4% state income tax) · Wyoming (no state income tax)

To Nebraska from the states next to Nevada

Oregon · Idaho · Utah · Arizona · California

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